African Philosophy An Anthology [Paperback]

Bringing together canonical philosophical texts from African, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black European thinkers, this major new anthology is designed to serve both as a textbook and as the authoritative reference volume in Africana philosophical and cultural studies.Preface.

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Part I: What is African Philosophy?.

1. African Philosophy: Yesterday and Today (Joseph I. Omoregbe).

2. Philosophy and Post-Colonial Africa (Tsenay Serequeberhan).

3. African, African American, Africana Philosophy (Lucius Outlaw).

4. The African Foundations of Greek Philosophy (Henry Olela).

5. Contemporary Moslem Philosophies in North Africa (Mourad Wahba).

Part II: Human Nature: Mind, Body, and Self-Identity.

6. The Relation of Okra (Soul) and Honam (Body): An Akan Conception (Kwame Gyekye).

7. Chi in Igbo Cosmology (Chinua Achebe).

8. The Sociality of Self (Okot p'Bitek).

Part III: Philosophy, Politics, and Society.

9. Leaders must not be Masters (Julius Nyerere).

10. Consciencism (Kwame Nkrumah).

11. Two Traditions in African American Political Philosophy (Bernard Boxill).

12. Universal Dimensions of Black Struggle I: Black Revolution Universal Dimensions of Black Struggle II: Human Rights, Civil Rights (Malcom X).

13. Philosophy, Politics, and Power: An Afro-American Perspective (Cornel West).

Part IV: Ethics.

14. Mutumin Kirki : The Concept of the Good Man in Hausa (Anthony H.M. Kirk-Greene).

15. Yoruba Philosophy: Individuality, Community, anl“Z